An article in The Lancet discussed a clinical trial of a product for a rare disease. The authors had modified the primary analysis from an unadjusted Wilcoxon rank sum test to a Poisson regression. This led to several questions including: Was a Poisson distribution appropriate? How were the...

The N/I distributions are the ratio of a normal distribution to an independent distribuiton. They include the normal, Cauchy, t, slash for various cases of the denominator distribution. The author has developed a program that will generate these distributions for use in simulations....

This note comments on the article by Alemayehu and Levenstein. It expands a bit on the work and suggests other directions the work could go in.

This note comments on the article by Alemayehu and Levenstein. It expands a bit on the work and suggests other directions the work could go in.